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If 10 hours is more than you care to spend in a car - even if it is to eastern North America's perennial top resort, Mont Tremblant in Quebec - not to worry. There are plenty of places to hit the slopes sliding much closer to home, and we don't mean...

LES ARCS, France (AP) _ The resort of Les Arcs in the French Alps is renowned for having 125 miles of runs, a lift system that can take you all the way up to 10,500 feet, and a cable car that connects to the neighboring valley of La Plagne. But I didn'...

In the notoriously fickle realm of popularity, a year can be a lifetime. Which is why it is positively astounding that for the past 12 years a single resort - Quebec's Mont Tremblant - has been rated No. 1 overall in Eastern North America by the readers...

TALK about putting on the Ritz. Never mind that most of Mammoth Lakes' second-home market is crawling as slowly as a car in a blizzard. The luxurious, soon-to-be-built Ritz-Carlton Residences, Mammoth and the recently opened Westin Monache Mammoth condo-...

The Village of Imagine has fallen victim to the local and nationwide housing slump. The project's developer is reconsidering plans to build the mixed-use complex of shops, restaurants and residential units across from the Orange County Convention Center....

Workers scrambled about The Westin Imagine on Wednesday, assembling tables that had just arrived, cleaning carpets one last time and shifting giant concrete planters into place at the front entrance. When the new condominium-hotel on Universal...

The sign on the shoulder of U.S. 40, west of Truckee, says it's "Old School Thursday" at Donner Ski Ranch, lift tickets $10 a day. They must be pretty desperate to offer tickets that cheap, I think as I pull into the rutted parking lot that is only a...

The sign on the shoulder of U.S. 40, west of Truckee, Calif., says it's "Old School Thursday" at Donner Ski Ranch, lift tickets $10 a day. They must be pretty desperate to offer tickets that cheap, I think as I pull into the rutted parking lot that is...

LIKE many veteran skiers, I have made it a goal to visit all the major ski areas of the West — Aspen and Vail in Colorado, Park City, Utah, and Jackson Hole, Wyo. But it took me many years to investigate the smaller ski areas near the big ones &#...

FROM the top of Mammoth Mountain, the sound of hammers pounding in the distance drifts up from a sea of gray-green Jeffrey pines. To the east, the sun is gleaming off the top of an orange construction crane, towering over development of Craftsman-style...

'Bienvenue à Tremblant, monsieur." The phrase hung in the air while I tried to conjure my long-lost French skills to reply, but the hotel receptionist quickly filled the awkward silence by welcoming me in English. The French flavors -- both cultural...

Where: 85 miles, two hours from Nassau-Suffolk border, in northwestern New Jersey. Why: During winter season this rural, mountainous region offers downhill skiing at Hidden Valley Ski Resort, 973-764-4200, www.hiddenvalleynj.com, and Intrawest's Mountain...